Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-07
SPARKLING IN THE STREETS.
Hou Marriages Are Made Among the
Masses in the Tenenae nts In New York.
Philadelphia Press.

Hou Marriages Are Made Among the
Masses in ths Tenenaen In New York.
Philadelphia Press.
How do we New Workers do our court
ing? How do we get married? Perhaps
you think these are idle questions and
thst Gotham must be like any other city
in respect of these matters. Alas! it is
far from being so. 1t would be far better
for humanity were it SO.
One day, several years ago, had bit
of reporting to do close to the city hall
and ran scross young man st the head
of g considerable manufacturing business
| talked TO him of my errand, and when
he had told me all he knew he said TO me,
SNOW, give me my turn, please. l have
helped you and turn about is fair play, 50
give ne little help. Tell me how | can
get a good wife"
"Marry good girl" said 1.
az don't know any," SAID he. He ad-
ded: "Come, sit down and hear my case.
[ came here without s penny from New
England, where's on account OF moving
about and being mere boy, left no &c
quatntapces. My only relatives are
strangers to me, so | can't go to the
country for O wife. Once here | went to
WORK with double purpose: to succeed
in business and to educate myself. All
dsy I have worked 6nd at night have reai
my books. I sleep in my factory and eat
at restaurants. l almost literally know
no women. Now, how shall get wife!
I an in comfortable circumstances and
an a man of honorable impulses. want
to marry and found q family" 81 -,.
His farther conversation, his ex-
periences in en6eavoring to get female
scuuaintanceS must be reserved for
another writing. Suffice it that he told
me what have seen many proofs OF: Tina;
New York contains thousands OF men who
are not acquainted with women, or,
rather, not with good women, for this
hesrt-bungry bachelor told NE that very
many OF those he had run across hsC
found IL easy to know evil women, and
had stopped at that end linked their lives
with such in unmsnly and illegal allisnces
! He used the WORD "unmanly," and il
seems to me good term to apply to tnoSe
who help to destroy decency and woman
hood.
These thousands of bachelors are, il
the main, fellows who have not the knack
of interesting women; shy men, or sell
conscious ones who have morbid sense
of their own aWkwardness. Many, also
are men engrossed in study or work
They come from Europe or the country
and, beginning by avoiding women, sooI
develop sn inability 70 face them.
The greatest matrimonial agencies II
New York for such men sud twice a.
many others, including the young meI
who hGve tsste for female society, ar
the Sunday schools, the shopping stores
bn
nsve arranged these in that order on pur
pose; Sunday schools first and boarding
houses last. Many matches are made il
boarding houses, bat in each there Il
ant to be only Que daughter or {
couple Of sisters, and as they are seen
the greatest disadvantage, doing menfa
work, much of the romance OF their girl
hood--so large factor in love-is de
stroyed. clearinghouse daughters de
yeIop into old maids as often as int
wives. But in the Sunday schools ther'
are hosts of girls, scores and sometime
hundreds. The doors are open to sll an
the bscheI2rs flock in. Nowhere Il
!, America will you see so many NAL
scholars over 50 years of age in Sunday
schools IS in this city. They are mainl
. the chaps speak of, taking this means t
get wives. Sunday-schools serve quee
purposes here. Seven hundred Cnins
men attend them merely to learn Eoglis
and many thousands of bachelors go t
them merely to get wives. Chrlstianit
interests one set not at all, the other sc
very little,
The second greatest matrimonial sger
cies in New York are the big shoppin
for ladies'. They are such in q way 20
scarcely would think OF. l suppose thu
comparatively few Of the counter CIR
msrry the men they wait upon. Msshei
and male f1irts sometimes ply their prt
fessiou in these stores, but only the sill
est girls heed them, and they are slmo
r certain to rue it, for the etiquette OF Ties
i, stores land it is stronger than law 10
bids q girls entertaining male FRIEND
at ner counter. She loses csste
t once if men call snd chat with her Their
e But there are 10000 counter girls in Ne
: York. How and whom do they msrr!
8 They also 90 to the Sunday-schools al
get husbands and lovers there, b.
their most frequent conquesfs 81
among the men who work
the same stores with them..ti
fioorwalkers, buyers, cashiers, heads
n departments sad even partners In Il
l. property. These men and girls meet
d thousand times "a days walk nome q
: gether, go out together In .he evenln
e and, oftentimes marry one N other.
/. The Second Avenue Elevated kanros
e pierces the thick of Nav York, through u